Our Hunter Jones
Joins the Civil War (Missouri)

Yes, Hunter Jones is only 12-years-old. And yes, he’s an orphan. But he’s also a fighter and survivor. We go with him as he gets sucked up into the Civil War and carried off to high adventures and exciting escapades. We are with him when he gets shot and captured by soldiers from the newly formed Confederate Army.

In his hospital bed and in a coma Hunter’s close friends Patch and Peg Leg read to him headlines and stories from the battlefield newspapers. With his imagination and dreams Hunter is carried away to events, battles and first that changed or altered the direction of the Civil War, West of the Mississippi – the first battle of the war, the first General to die, the first use of instant messaging (telegraph) in a war, the first use of metal hulled ships (ironsides), the first battle Ulysses S. Grant fought (and lost?), plus other first and events: The Capture of Camp Jackson, The St. Louis Massacre, The Boonville Races, the rout of the Union forces at Carthage and Wilson's Creek Missouri.

We watch as soldiers next to him die, as battles get lost that could have changed the outcome of the war or won that did change the outcome.

As you read, you’ll feel the push and pull, the sweat and strain, the pleasures and the pain of Hunter Jones’ life in the Confederate army. NOTE: Even though he and his story are fictional, the sad details, facts, figures and events of the Civil War are historically correct. Reading it, you’ll laugh, cry and be glad as Hunter Jones dodges bullets and cleverly escapes sudden death but, more importantly, you’ll carry away a sense of American History that is still alive today, 148 years later. Wow!

A TRILOGY...

“Hunter Jones Joins the Civil War (Missouri)” is the first in a trilogy, a series that is different enough to capture the imaginations of the next generation of Civil War historians, the future keepers of the flame.

The next in the series is Hunter Jones in (Indian Territory). It explains how the Indians got to Indian Territory and why some fought for the North and some fought for the South. It also cover some of the battles that happened in the New Mexico Territory, before it became Arizona and New Mexico, including Stanwix Station (AZ), the western-most battle of the Civil War. And how Texan Confederates planned to go up through the New Mexico Territory and capture the gold mines in Colorado to help pay for the South's war effort.

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The third book in the trilogy Hunter Jones in (Arkansas). It will deal with many of the Civil War events that happened in the state of Arkansas - the battles at: Pea Ridge, Prairie Grove, Devil's Backbone, Chalk Bluff, Poison Spring and more, including the blowing up of The USS Mound City an ironsides at Saint Charles Arkansas and ending with the last battle of the Civil War at Brownsville Texas across the Rio Grande from Matamoros, Mexico and the last General (Chief Stand Watie) to surrender two months after the surrender at Appomattox.